The Ruckus

Hot Air: Video: Pawlenty on McCain the Underdog

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:30:01 GMT

Our governor, Tim Pawlenty, got a bit chippy on Fox News yesterday while discussing John McCain with Bret Baier...

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Hot Air: Obama’s Illinois votes on guns

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:57:02 GMT

As Robert Novak noted today , voters could find it difficult to get a read on Barack Obama's real feelings about the rights of gun owners and the constitutionality of gun bans. Obama has certainly made his position opaque with a number of contradictory statements in this campaign. Perhaps the tribulations of Hale DeMar and the legislative response to an act of self-defense can help make Obama's impulses a little more transparent...

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The Moderate Voice: SCOTUS, McCain-style

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:45:00 GMT

From yesterday's WaPo: A Win by McCain Could Push a Split Court to Right Huh, you think? ********** It's obvious, yes, but it needs to be said. Many people still seem to regard McCain as some sort of moderate, a maverick moderate who isn't like most Republicans. While he's broken with his party in the past, though, he isn't nearly the maverick or moderate his media image would suggest he is, along with his various detractors on the far right and some of his admirers among the self-styled crowd. On the contrary, he has a long, long record of conservatism on social issues to go along with worse-than-Bush neoconservatism on foreign and military issues and, more recently, a Bush-like conservatism on fiscal and economic issues (he now...

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Outside The Beltway: Swift Boater on McCain’s Truth Squad

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:02:03 GMT

John McCain's Truth Squad, formed a few months ago in order to respond to charges by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth clone Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain, is prominently featuring an actual member of the Swifties as a spokesman, CNN's Rebecca Sinderbrand reports. One of the members of John McCain’s new Truth Squad — which his campaign says was launched to respond to unfair attacks on his record of military service –- was a member of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, and appeared in an attack ad for the group in 2004. The group was created to attack 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry’s military service record. How can you expect our sons and daughters to follow you when you condemned their fathers and grandfathers? asked former...

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The Moderate Voice: Obama Hating the Wimminfolk!

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:57:04 GMT

CNS News jumped out today with a provocative article titled, Obama's for Equal Pay, Yet Pays Female Staffers Less Than Males . In it we find a horrible tale of woe, where Obama (who has vowed to make pay equity for women a top priority if elected president ) has a lower percentage of female employees on his staff and they ear less, on average, than their male co-workers. On average, women working in Obama's Senate office were paid at least $6,000 below the average man working for the Illinois senator. That's according to data calculated from the Report of the Secretary of the Senate, which covered the six-month period ending Sept. 30, 2007. Of the five people in Obama's Senate office who were paid $100,000 or more on an annual basis,...

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Outside The Beltway: Obama Rebuffs Clark on McCain

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:31:05 GMT

Barack Obama has wisely distanced himself from surrogate Wes Clark's disparagement of John McCain's military experience . For those like John McCain who have endured physical torment in service to our country — no further proof of such sacrifice is necessary, Obama said. And let me also add that no one should ever devalue that service, especially for the sake of a political campaign, and that goes for supporters on both sides. The comment drew loud applause. Andrew Sullivan , an unabashed admirer of Obama despite his own Oakeshottian conservative bent, is less temperate vis-a-vis Clark. Wesley Clark is now and always has been a Clinton-type, but this is pretty revolting. This kind of personal attack was repulsive coming against...

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Hot Air: Now just imagine Blogger was the FEC

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:23:01 GMT

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The Moderate Voice: A Choice, Not a Rant

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:08:01 GMT

I've been trying to read Reclaiming Conservatism , but former Congressman Mickey Edwards. It's has been a difficult read. It's not because it is hard to read. What has bothered me so far is page after page of Edwards rants against the Bush Administration and the feckless Republican Congress that let the President get away with so much. After a while it gets a bit tedious. It's not that I am a fan of President Bush or the GOP Congress of 2000-06, it's just that it gets tiring hearing the same accusations over and over again with no way to out of this mess that has been created. There have been a series of articles and books by frustrated conservatives who are mad at how the Republican party has lost their core values. Many conservatives...

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The Moderate Voice: Obama Fights For A Piece Of The Patriotism Franchise By Wrapping Himself In The Flag

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:42:02 GMT

That Barack Obama felt compelled to give a speech today about patriotism speaks volumes about the lousy state of political discourse in the U.S. That few minds will be changed although the speech was a noble effort is a fact of life for this African-American with a foreign-sounding middle name and an opposition with toxic intentions. That there are so many real issues crying out for attention in this deeply troubled land as the July 4th holiday draws near and he feels the need to wrap himself in the flag is disheartening. What Obama sought to do at the Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri was redefine our archaic and platitude driven views of what constitutes patriotism by telling his own story in much the same way he...

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Hot Air: The Ed Morrissey Show: Kevin McCullough; American Solutions’ “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less”

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:30:01 GMT

Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Kevin McCullough joins us from the Musclehead Revolution to discuss Barack Obama's condom stand at Rick Warren's Saddleback Church, as well as Wes Clark's idiocy from yesterday...

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TalkLeft: Commander In Chief Test

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:02:03 GMT

Remember this controversial comment ? I think its imperative that each of us be able to demonstrate we can cross the commander-in-chief threshold. I believe that Ive done that. Certainly, Sen. McCain has done that and youll have to ask Sen. Obama with respect to his candidacy, [Hillary Clinton] said. Yesterday, General Wesley Clark said John McCain had not passed that test. But Barack Obama disagrees and "rejects" Clark's assessment. Apparently, Obama agrees that McCain has passed the Commander in Chief test. I doubt McCain will extend the same courtesy. More . . . Rereading Josh Marshall's post made me realize that his real objection here is, as he reiterates it : What his campaign should not be doing is lending its imprimatur to...

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Outside The Beltway: Google Shuts Down Anti-Obama Blogs

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:30:05 GMT

Some Obama supporters are apparently taking advantage of Google's terms of service to silence anti-Obama blogs, Simon of Bloggasm reports. The company automatically shuts down sites upon receipt of TOS violation claims until they're able to do a human audit, a rather slow process with given little priority on the free BlogSpot service. After some digging it became apparent that several Blogspot accounts had been shut down because of similar spam issues, and nearly all of them had three things in common: Most were pro-Hillary Clinton blogs, all were anti-Barack Obama, and several were listed on justsaynodeal.com , an anti-Obama website. A “Flag Blog” link sits at the very top of every free Blogspot account. If a person finds...

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Oliver Willis: GOP Waaaahmbulance Is GO!

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:25:01 GMT

I've got two responses to the right clutching their pearls and fainting because a few people think that while honorable, John McCain's military service isn't the end-all and be-all of why he should be commander-in-chief. KTHXBI...

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Hot Air: Does Obama pay women less than men?

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:20:05 GMT

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Hot Air: Obama misleads on oil leases: WSJ

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:45:01 GMT

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